Invitations

The bell rang for lunch and Cindy packed everything into her backpack. She placed her pencils neatly back into her pencil case, folded her papers in half and put them between the pages of her notebook, and carried her binder with her out of the classroom after she checked to make sure the rings of the binder were closed.

She followed the crowd to their lockers, but her eyebrows furrowed when instead, everyone was shuffling towards the main office. Even the "unpopular" kids were. Cindy tilted her head, What could the "popular" kids do to me that could be so bad, actually?" She thought.

Curious, she let her feet bring her with the sea of students. Catherine, Mia, Kayla, Alison, and Zoe were already there. In fact, they were the ones in front. From the back, Cindy could see Catherine with her arms crossed, lips in a thin line, foot sticking out. 

Mia looked up at Catherine. She looked as if she wanted to speak. She had her right foot stuck out to the side, something one would acknowledge as body language for "What the heck, why won't these people shut up?" if one knew Catherine well enough.

Mia whirled around and cupped her hands around her mouth. "YO KIDS!" She hollered. Kids? Cindy thought. They were all the same age. About, anyway. No one complained though. "SHUT UP! CATHY HERE IS TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING!" 

Some students in front of Cindy snickered at the nickname "Cathy". Cindy pondered the name. There was nothing wrong with it. Not that she could see anyway. Sure, Catherine bullied her, but why would she laugh at the name "Cathy"? There was obviously nothing wrong about it unless there was a double meaning or if it was an inside joke. 

However, everyone quieted down. Funny how some students would obey the popular kids' orders. Catherine turned around on her heel looking all fancy and held up a pink flyer from the bulletin board, "Masquerade party for Halloween Thursday, two days from now. Show up or don't, I don't care. But you know if you're invited or not." She looked pointedly at Cindy and shoved the paper into a bystander's hands. Then she walked away with her group.

That night at home, Cindy sat on her bed after she had finished her World History essay and thought about the look Catherine had been giving her. 

What would happen if she went?

Would everyone ignore her?

Would the bullying become worse? Cindy stopped at this question. What bullying? Well, the bullying didn't really affect her. She had support. 

"Dinner!" She heard her mother called.

Cindy went downstairs after getting Crystal from her room and they all sat down at the dining table. 

Cindy smiled. She had made her choice and no one was going to change it but her.

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School's over soon so I'll be able to update more frequently! xD